AGENDA

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2010

EARLY MORNING SELF-HEALING PRACTICE
We hope you have taken advantage of these special self-healing experiences that can return you to your professional lives invigorated in body, mind and spirit.

7:15 - 8:15 a.m.
Qigong Practice
Brother/Doctor Bernard Seif, SMC, EdD, DNM

LifeForce: Tao of Medical Qigong 1, 2, 3 - Nan Lu, OMD
(Private Session: For participants completing training in Levels 1, 2, and 3 of this energy healing art under the guidance of Nan Lu, OMD)

The Dragon's Way® Instructor Certification Training
(Private Session: For participants completing training as certified instructors of The Dragon's Way® Program)

8:00a.m.
Coffee in Exhibit Hall

8:30 - 11:30 a.m.
CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS (half-hour break)

Hepatitis C: New Therapeutic Principle and Treatment
Ruan Jin Zhao, OMD

Hepatitis C is a disease often encountered by TCM practitioners due to lack of current effective medical treatment. Even though peg-interferon and Ribavirin may help some genotype hepatitis C cases, the virus recurrence rate is high. Side effects are so strong that many patients are scared away or do not complete treatment. For TCM practitioners, hepatitis C patients present a challenge and an opportunity. This workshop explores a new therapeutic strategy and method drawn from classical Chinese medicine and its potential for addressing other viral diseases. Dr. Zhao examines how TCM can help achieve the goal of slowing disease progression, reducing viral inflammation, preventing fibrosis, blocking cirrhosis, and maintaining Liver function, which helps reduce the risk of developing hepatoma.

METAL: Transformation of Virtue from Grief to Righteousness
Thea Elijah, MAc

There is no beauty in life without the one who appreciates it. Our capacity for appreciation is a function of the Metal element, which relates to Lung function in TCM. It is a measure of our ability to wrest from Heaven a sense of meaningful order that we are able to grasp in human terms. We cannot fit the whole sky into individual lungs; nevertheless with every breath we receive Heaven. We will never comprehend the entirety of the cosmic order, but we can frame a value system that allows us to live a meaningful life. Grief, the emotion of the Lung in Five-Element Theory, is experienced when our values, our sense of cosmic order, is challenged by Heaven to open and let go of old frames of reference, for the sake of the journey into living under a much bigger sky.

The Tao of Marketing: Promoting Your Wellness Practice
Ellen Schaplowsky

Branding, marketing, public relations, advertising, social media... today there are so many ways to communicate your message and find your market. It's a challenge, however, to create a coherent, cogent and replicable marketing plan that will achieve your goals yet use your finite resources - both energetic and financial - wisely. This workshop takes a look at how brand strategies are developed, how to identify your best markets, how to establish a unique presence for your wellness practice, and how to articulate the special value that you uniquely can deliver to your target audience.

LifeForce: Tao of Medical Qigong 1, 2 and 3
(Private Session: For participants completing training in Levels 1, 2, and 3 of this energy healing art under the guidance of Nan Lu, OMD)

11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m
Brunch: Bridges of Integration Awards

POSTCONFERENCE SESSIONS
(Open to the Public)

Special Post-Conference Event for Breast Cancer Awareness Month

1:00 - 5:30 p.m.

Wu Ming Qigong for Breast Health - Training Session
Nan Lu, OMD

Learn unique Wu Ming Qigong for breast health so you can bring this vital prevention technique to your community. Now, practitioners and others can provide healing tools that women can use to go beyond early detection and help prevent breast cancer. From the TCM perspective, before physical problems appear, they occur as energy stagnation in the Stomach, Kidney and Liver meridians that run through the breast area. Dr Lu discusses why and how breast cancer develops from the energetic point of view, and helps participants learn how to properly demonstrate special Wu Ming Qigong forms for breast health. (Participants receive a complimentary copy of "Wu Ming Qigong for Breast Health" DVD.) Proceeds from this workshop benefit TCM World Foundation's Breast Cancer Prevention Project.

Anxiety and Insomnia in Chinese Medicine
Heiner Fruehauf, PhD, LAc

In this special-topic workshop, Professor Fruehauf explores a common disorder that most modern patients bring with them. He shares his insights into the pathogenesis of this condition by drawing from classical sources and his own clinical experience, and introduces simple yet effective ways to resolve anxiety and insomnia with a focus on herbal medicine, emotional healing and Qigong.